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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 138 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No no, this makes sense, you literally need to cheat.

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

It works for the crooks in charge.

But the people paying for these kind of alpha boot camps aren't ever going to be in that position. They'll just put on blinders and "hustle" like a good little worker.

[–] dumples@piefed.social 100 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] cmoney@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The FIDE regulations dictate that a player who declines en passant must drop a brick on their pipi. A brick is kept nearby for such eventualities

Spoilerhttps://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/mzrx2o/my_workout_punishments_for_chess_blunders/

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t see any anal beads in that drawing though.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Pull harder

[–] cmoney@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I figured it was something like that.

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[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

We hit that bullseye and the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards.

Checkmate.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

your buddy vapes over the game board

"I activate fog of war"

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 39 points 1 month ago

But that is how CEO assholes work (or try to until they can't get away with it)

Source: worked with nearly a dozen CEOs of various size companies

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be fair, though, if you were in a game of chess where you could make 10 moves for every one move your opponent makes, it would be really easy to win that game of chess.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

The Scholar’s mate school of business.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Chess with flash windows.

I feel so fucking dirty for saying those words. Good god.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 month ago

But he's correct. If you're rich enough you can bribe all the seconds, then you can make extra moves and irregular moves. Heck, you can just have all the seconds declare you victor.

For extra points, hire guys with guns to make sure everyone at the tournament agrees with your rules.

This is the state of modern neoliberal capitalism from the view of billionaire oligarchs and multi-national conglomerate corporations.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't want to ruin this meme, but he's saying a real thing in a confusing way. You have to think 10 moves ahead of your opponent and also the repercussions of each move at every step.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Zero points for saying it wrong, though.

“You miss every shot you take”

“The only thing we do not fear is fear itself”

“Interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake”

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"If fighting is sure to result in defeat then you must fight"

[–] Curious_Canid@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a wonderful cartoon book by Tom Weller called "Minims". A minim is the opposite of a maxim. So the book is full of illustrations of wisdom like "The early worm gets eaten by the bird." and "You'll catch more flies with honey than you'd care to." The book's subtitle is "Man is the only animal that wears bow ties."

(Although, I have to admit, my husky sometimes wears bow ties and he looks a lot better in them than I do.)

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Cats in bow ties also look great.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, he said a real thing in a completely factually wrong way, and that's assuming that this "entrepeneur" actually understood it correctly, which I doubt.

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[–] _chris@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Alpha in the software sense: pre-release, lots of bugs, definitely not ready for production, sale, or wide public viewing.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

And increasingly: Mostly composed of an assortment of self-reinforced hallucinations.

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Alpha male when full release male walks in: 😧

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

So we can ship it tomorrow? Great I just told the investors, so we're now leagly obligated to ship it tomorrow.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's called tempo, you sub-1800ers /s

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hear you can cheat at chess by sticking a vibrator in your ass.

Maybe that's what the rich CEOs are doing to win

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep trying but it doesn't seem to make me rich

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I gave up on playing chess. The game has become such a metaphor, such a fetish symbol for intellect, so every dude "knows how to play", but won't risk the humiliation of loss, and therefore won't play. I don't enjoy online chess, so I just don't get to play.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 1 month ago

Give shot chess a try. Each piece is a small shot glass.

I had loads of fun destroying my friends since I was in the chess club in grade school. And they had fun because alcohol.

Or find a park that has chess boards.

[–] racoon@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

Well instead of "make" it should be "think" and it would be fine, you fool

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I "know" how to play chess but when I try to play against a computer I constantly get reminded I can't move my piece there because I would be putting myself in check.

Pretty sure I've only won 2 chess games in my life. ..... Against someone at my level.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

you didn't know about the French cum sock opener? you fool ! had you known you could have forked me into giving up one of my pieces !

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Chess isn't actually a logic game or a smarts game, it's a memory game. If you're a computer or one of those 15-people-per-generation chess brains, then yeah, you probably can logic your way into thinking enough moves ahead. If not, your only option is to remember a bunch of different plays and learn how to recognise and execute the preditermined strategies. If you try to do it your way, you will be stuck losing to a bad computer or chess club kids online

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I beat my kids

at chess whenever we play.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If you told me this before, I would be winning every game of chess I played

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Read between the lines: they're saying that they have to cheat to win.

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

Business is like Start Craft 2, you gotta raise your APM if you want to beat the Korean pros

[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

If he said "do them in your head" it would have made more sense lol

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This explains SO much about their thinking.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is this from Trump's book?

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[–] richardwallass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

He doesn't tell how it works...

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